Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-21

splendid assortment of furs the writer talked with the furrier.
 'fFurs will be more generally worn this l winter than ever before," he explained. Everybody seems to be making money, and they are anxious to spend it. Our store is patronized by only the very wealthy, but even the very wealthy do not have ready money to spend in times of depression. We have been rushed to death for two weeks. The cool weather has caused many ladies to look at their winter wraps, and now they are coming in here to buy new cloaks or to have their old ones repaired. Sealskin cloaks es- pecially are the ones we repair. You see a good sealskin coat will last for several years if taken care of. We often get coats back that we have sold eight or nine years before, and with little cleaning we make them look as good as new. Just look here," and the furrier took up an old sealskin saeque that seemed to be almost worn out.
 "This coat" he said, "we sold in 1881 and now we will make it look as good as new. The edges will be repaired, new buttons and Things will be put in, and with the aid of two skins we will make it of the fashionable coat will then last for another five years. Now just look how cheap 8 sealskin coat is. This one was not expensive. Seven years ago it cost two hundred dollars; that is about thirty dollars year, and now for fifty dol lars it will cost ten dollars year for another
 
 will only have cost twenty dollars year less than very ordinary winter wrap"
 'tWhat is to be the fashionable fura'
 "Sealskin. It will be worn great deal and in variety of ways. For ladies the shapes mostly worn will be the newmarket, the paletot and the raglan. Some of these coats are plain and some are trimmed. The newmarket is handsome coat. It is entire ly made of seal and is fitted to the figure. It is worn long, coming down to the bottom of the dress. At the neck is very neat little collar, which can be worn up or down. Some few ladies have had their newmarkets trimmed with otter, beaver or sable, and they make them look very handsome. The French paletot is style greatly admired. It is an elegant fitting and graceful garment, and is from fifty to ffty-eight inches in length. This too can be trimmed with either beaver, sea otter, lynx or sable. In England they name their garments after members of the royal household or some prominent lady. In this country we are naming them after the leading ladies of the land. One gar ment we call after Mrs. Blaine. It is of the French paletot shape, and is trimmed with sable tails and is worth from two hundred and fifty to eight hundred dollars. Another handsome garment is called the Mrs. Cleve- land. It is a newmarket and is trimmed with sable. Mrs. Sherman is the name of another. This is a sealskin psletot trimmed with lynx. These three garments are named after the wives of the three prominent candi- dates for the presidency. No, there is no Mrs. Hill. If there was we would name a garment after her. I think Hill will be left because he has no wife"
 "What are the styles for small sacquesa" 'FThere is the visite trimmed with natural beaver. A hood of beaver, sealskin, sable, otter or lynx makes very pretty garment. | The English walking jacket is very popular, l and style called the Fifth avenue, another | tight-ftting saeque, is selling well. There is | also the Mikado, trimmed with sealskin ball fringe, the princess, an elegant garment for l stout ladies, and the matinee"
 | "What does good sealskin garment costa"
 l "The paletots and newmarkets cost all the way from twenty to eight hundred dollars l according to the trimming The saeuues are worth from one hundred and forty to foul hundred and fifty dollars each For elderly I ladies who desire comfort the mink-linec | circular is very popular. These cost from | twenty-five to one hundred and twenty-five | dollars
 "Just step this way and I will show yor | something that is within the reach of only | select few"
 The furrier led the way to large iron safe
 and swinging open the doors pointed to three I small drawers. They were about foot wid, | and two feet ten inches deep.
 "Those three drawers contain about eigh ! thousand dollars worth of furs. They ar
 chiefly crown Russian sable, silver fox ant
 sea otter. Sable trimming is going to b popular
 ''Is the sealskin still dyed in London?"
 "Yes, we have tried every possible way t,
 dye as well as they do there, but have beel
 unsuccessful. Why it is I cannot make out
 If they have secret in the method of thei
 dyeing they guard it very we'll. rathe
 think though that it is something in the at
 mosphere. Every country has to go to Lon
 don for the best sealskins, and they are fin
 too. Those dyed in Paris or in this country
 while they leok as fine as the London dyed a
 first, soon change color and assume a reddish
 hue. We can dye beaver, otter and othe
 furs just as well in this country as in an, | other"